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Remotely Enable Remote Desktop

November 15, 2013 /

Remote Desktop (aka Terminal Service) is disabled by default in Windows 7.  If you have administrator access to the computers on your domain, you can remotely enable it by doing the following:

Step 1: Open ports in the Windows firewall

There is no native way to change the settings of a remote Windows firewall. However, you can use PsExec from SysInternals to disable it or change some rules.

If you download the app and drop it into your c:\ drive, you can run this command and get command line access for that remote box.

c:\psexec \\remote_machine_name cmd

Once you have that command line open, you can run this command to disable the firewall:

netsh advfirewall set currentprofile state off

Alternatively you can run this command to allow only Remote Desktop while still leaving the rest of the firewall as is:

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group=”remote desktop” new enable=Yes

Step 2: Start the Remote Registry service

Load up the Services MMC (Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services), right click on “Services (Local)” and choose “Connect to another computer”. Enter the name of your remote machine and connect to it. You should now be able to find the “Remote Registry” service and start it.

Depending on your environment, this may already be running, but I have found it generally isn’t on fresh computers.

Step 3: Change a registry setting to enable Remote Desktop

It’s time to make use of the Remote Registry and actually enable RDP. Load up regedit and go toFile > Connect Network Registry. Enter the name of your remote computer and connect to it. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > CurrentControlSet > Control > Terminal Server. Change the value of “fDenyTSConnections” to “0″.

Step 4: Start the Remote Desktop service

Go back to the Services MMC you used in Step 2. Find the service “Remote Desktop Services” and start it (or restart if it is already running).

Active Directory Users & Computers Snap-in for Windows 7

September 12, 2013 /

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 with SP1 enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on computers that are running Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2003, from a remote computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows 7 with SP1.

The first thing to do is download and install the tool kit from Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7887

Next, from your control panel, turn on the Windows features as shown below:

ADUC-1

ADUC-2

Can’t open CHM file or CHM topics are blank

September 12, 2013 /

Issue:
After opening a CHM documentation file, a topic may not appear when you click a link from the Table of Contents. Also, when you try to use a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path to open a .CHM file that exists on a network shared folder, topics in the .chm file may not appear.

Reason:
You are using Microsoft Windows XP and have installed Security Update 896358 from Microsoft, which prevents the features of some web applications to work properly.

Solution:
On Windows XP (with the security update applied) you can also simply right-click on the CHM file, select Properties, and click on the “Unblock” button. Click “Apply” and the content should be visible.

This will only work on local files.

Where Is the Startup Folder?

September 12, 2013 /

I was recently searching for the startup folder for the User profile and the All Users profile in Windows 7. Systems administrators frequently create scripts which must run at login. Sometimes the scripts target an individual user profile and other times they target the computer in general regardless of the user.

In Windows XP, the startup folder existed in the following locations:

User Profile
 C:\Documents and Settings\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

All Users Profile
 C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

In Windows 7 however, access to the “Documents and Settings” folder is denied. This was the problem I ran into. I soon discovered that, in Windows 7, the startup folder was moved to the following locations:

Windows 7 User Profile
  C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Windows 7 All Users Profile
 C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Startup scripts are handled the same way in Windows 7 as they were in Windows XP. The difference is that the location of the startup folder has changed.

Office 2010 spell check does not work

September 12, 2013 /

Problem:

Spell check does not work in Office 2010.  Intellisense does not detect incorrectly spelled words and manually running spell check does not work either.

Solution:

  1. Click on Office Button | Word Options | Add-Ins | Manage: Disabled Items. If you see any disabled items that relate to spelling, try enabling them.
  2. If the previous suggestion doesn’t help, then:
    a. Close Word and any other open applications.
    b. Click on Start | Run | Open and type “regedit” (without the quotation marks).
    c. If the following key exists, delete it.
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Proofing Tools\1.0\Overrided.
    d. Exit the Registry Editor.
    e. Restart your computer.

NOTE TO SUPPORT STAFF:  The Windows 7 registry editor will prompt for an administrator password.  It will show the HKEY_CURRENT_USER tree for the user credentials provided.  Have the non-admin provide his or her credentials or you will not see the correct tree.

Pasted from <http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/office-2010-spellcheck-is-not-working/df78d1af-1d42-4c7f-aed3-571997e6323d>